Community Music

Sing from the Heart is a community song-creation project I first organised in 2024, where I encouraged my therapeutic singing groups to contribute their ideas for a song extolling the joys of amateur group singing. The project was captured in a mini-documentary showing the creation process and interactive performance. It was released alongside a single and music video in April 2025 and can be viewed and streamed here (as well as all the usual places).

This year we have repeated the process with a new track called Let there be Music - which you can find out all about here, and how to get involved!

I have been running community choirs with Living Lively for 3 years. I also run the Singing for Mental Health Community Choir at Revival in Whitstable.

Community Champions Awards

It was a tremendous honour to be nominated for a Community Champion award from Thanet District Council and Social Enterprise Kent. I’m deeply grateful to have received this recognition for my work in therapeutic and community music with Music 4 Wellbeing.

Sing from the Heart

Sing from the Heart is a collaborative, intergenerational, and mixed-ability community music project that celebrates the power of group singing. I invite participants from the different singing groups I run to contribute lyrical ideas to songs, and then to capture their voices on a final recording.

We then invite all those who were involved in the creation process to come together under one roof at the splendid QRBC in Broadstairs, to bring the track to life, will a full backing band of some of Kent’s finest musicians. Sing from the Heart is a participatory concert, where audience members sit amongst performers and join in the fun! The whole event is filmed by professional videographers to create a music video for the finished track. It’s a joyful event where we also sing well known songs and enjoy each other’s company, a slice of cake and a good old fashioned boogie!

I have been pleased to partner with the following organisations to make Sing from the Heart a truly joyful and inclusive event: Music 4 Wellbeing, Ramsgate Arts Primary School, the Gap Project, Inspiration Creative, Living Lively and the Revival Food and Mood. This year’s event drew upwards of 300 attendees!

2025

Let there be Music

On 19th Nov 2025 we hosted our 2nd Sing from the Heart event at Queens Road Baptist Church, Broadstairs. We were delighted to have even more attendees than 2024’s event. This year we had upwards of 300! Wow!! We also had an even greater age range too - from 5 to 90+, with my son Heath taking the youngest spot, and I’m not sure who the oldest was… write in and tell me if you know ;-). I was pleased to welcome singers from my community choirs and therapeutic singing groups from all over Kent, as well as the year 6s of Ramsgate Arts Primary School, and the signing choir, Inspiration Creative.

We performed an array of well known songs including All you Need is Love and Que Sera Sera, with harmonies and counter melodies, all backed up by a brilliant band featuring some of Kent’s finest musicians. The focus of the event was the new, original, collaborative composition, Let there be Music. The whole event was filmed by a team of professional videographers, and the footage will be edited into a music video for our brand new song! It will be released in the Spring. Can’t wait till then?? Well, you can enjoy the photos of this year’s event below, taken by Joel Knight. Or how about watch last year’s video to see the sort of thing we’ll be creating!

2024

Sing from the Heart Mini Doc + Music Vid

This film documents the first Sing from the Heart community music project. The documentary segment was filmed and edited by Rosie Carr. The music video at the end was filmed and edited by Chris Wade. The outset of the film functions as an exposé for the therapeutic music workshops I run with Music 4 Wellbeing. It will give the viewer an idea of the mental and physical benefits of these singing groups for their participants. I then introduce the collaborative song project with comments from some of those who took part, and some clips from the rehearsals and group recording sessions. Finally you can see footage from the interactive performance at Queens Road Baptist Church which functions as the music video for the finished recording. I hope you enjoy!!

Sing from the Heart Music Video

This music video was filmed and edited by Chris Wade of the Kent Video Company and uses footage from our interactive performance at Queens Road Baptist Church.